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The new variant is hard on the young. I had c*v*d in Nov, high fever and congestion (bp & fever monitoring), saw it thru at home but it was hard. Fingers crossed for your friend. People do get thru it.My friend is really, really sick with COVID right now, she has been fully vaccinated since July, and only 34 years old in perfect health. If she wasn't vaccinated, no doubt she would be hospitalized right now in the ICU.
Ontario reports 580 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths | Globalnews.ca
The data showed 296 were unvaccinated people, 38 were partially vaccinated people, 173 were fully vaccinated people and for 73 people the vaccination status was unknown.
I don't want to diminish the seriousness of Covid in the least............but I want to take note of what I thought was one of the most genuinely offensive, misleading headlines I've seen concerning it.
From the New York Times, no less, reporting the U.S. death toll at over 700,000, and suggesting it was now the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history.
U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 700,000 Despite Wide Availability of Vaccines
The latest Covid-19 deaths were concentrated in the South, and included more younger people than before. Every age group under 55 saw its highest death toll of the pandemic this August.www.nytimes.com
While, strictly speaking, that's true (taking all reporting both from 1918, and today at face value)...........
There's a huge, glaring problem.......
The Spanish Flu, which was reported to have killed 625,000 in the U.S..............took place in a nation of 103,000,000 people.
Whereas Covid, has taken place in a nation of 330,000,000 people. Therefore, the relative impact of the Spanish Flu was much higher.
Put another way, if Covid were as deadly as the Spanish Flu, there would over 2,000,000 dead Americans, instead of 700,000.
The problem here, so far as I'm concerned, beyond the obvious, is that what would seem to be an attempt to exaggerate the impact of Covid (which hardly requires that) will serve
to diminish the threat in the eyes of many, and to further distrust in media.
There is no need to exaggerate the impact of a very serious event, reality is sufficient.
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Travel in the middle ages was barely non-existent, which allowed the black death to spread slowly. Travel in the 1918's was short, but ships and trains allowed the Spanish Flu to spread. Today's travel allows for a quicker spread, spreading in weeks.I don't want to diminish the seriousness of Covid in the least............but I want to take note of what I thought was one of the most genuinely offensive, misleading headlines I've seen concerning it.
From the New York Times, no less, reporting the U.S. death toll at over 700,000, and suggesting it was now the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history.
U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 700,000 Despite Wide Availability of Vaccines
The latest Covid-19 deaths were concentrated in the South, and included more younger people than before. Every age group under 55 saw its highest death toll of the pandemic this August.
While, strictly speaking, that's true (taking all reporting both from 1918, and today at face value)...........
There's a huge, glaring problem.......
The Spanish Flu, which was reported to have killed 625,000 in the U.S..............took place in a nation of 103,000,000 people.
Whereas Covid, has taken place in a nation of 330,000,000 people. Therefore, the relative impact of the Spanish Flu was much higher.
Put another way, if Covid were as deadly as the Spanish Flu, there would over 2,000,000 dead Americans, instead of 700,000.
The problem here, so far as I'm concerned, beyond the obvious, is that what would seem to be an attempt to exaggerate the impact of Covid (which hardly requires that) will serve
to diminish the threat in the eyes of many, and to further distrust in media.
There is no need to exaggerate the impact of a very serious event, reality is sufficient.
That is not entirely true. Trade routes were actively traversed throughout the middle ages across the Old World, especially in south and east Asia.
The 1918 Influenza also had a much higher mortality rate for younger age demographics, which had substantially more severe impact on society and the economy. It renders the whole exercise of comparing death toll of the viruses a comparison of apples and oranges.
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Another Anti has his day:
An anti-vaxxer Edmonton Oiler got COVID and now his hockey career might be over
During the pandemic, forward Josh Archibald made his views about COVID known on social media, tweeting COVID-denial information
This is just complete madness.
I couldn't find the "tar and feather" tweet, meaning he's pulled it or it's been reported. But I think he's probably had so many strikes now that if it wasn't pulled his account would be suspended.
